Search Details

Word: weasels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Slow Going. In the Rhine lowlands, Crerar's troops were veterans of inundations. They hopped from island to island, from dike to dike, in their water-churning, mud-biting "Buffalo" and "Weasel" vehicles. On dry land the going was nearly as bad. The Germans had been able to concentrate. But by this week, behind fine air interference, Crerar's men had hacked out a dozen miles of grip on the Rhine. More importantly, his kilted Scots had broken into Goch, a hub of roads running into the industrial district west of the Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Monty's Turn | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Because their lives are an unrelenting and insatiable search for food, shrews exist in a perpetual state of nervous tension. So touchy are they that when a fox or a weasel, probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Untamed Shrews | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...special activities under consideration. The day will be a complete one, with picnic, swimming, and then to top it all off, an evening of dancing. The price will be as low as possible. Transportation will be taken care of by the committee. Speaking of Logistics, Don Brown, of "Weasel" fame, is planning to make up a coterie of horses and wagons to carry all who might like to follow the plodding nag. But more of that later. So, look around for possible date--as if you could...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/26/1944 | See Source »

...proved a popular meeting place. In fact, it is rumored one couple actually danced. The two-some looked like croonin' Huddy Futral with an improvement over his usual (female, of course.) "Weasel" Brown and his boys took over early--and faded out likewise. Mills treated all with a "letter of Credit" which looked strangely familiar. (Get the idearrrr?) C. Harrington was there pushing Ruth Fllipetti's cousin around. Bob Gordon from Arkansas, was heard to lament, "I've been out with better girls,--but not up heah." (Ed. Note-- But, Bob, the girls wear shoes up here...

Author: By W. M. Cousins and T.x. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/2/1944 | See Source »

...Watsonites went on their way. But they are determined that the Mackinac session shall not adopt any flannelmouthed, weasel-worded program as the Republican set of foreign-policy principles. If that happens, reasons Watson, a lot of new Republican converts are going to relapse to Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quick, Watson, the Needle! | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | Next